Mapping the Earth
It is a pattern of imaginary lines that circles the globe in east-west and north-south directions.
grid
It is an imaginary line that runs through Greenwich.
Prime Meridian
Mapmakers use it to represent distances between points on a map.
Scale
This type of map shows borders, capital, cities and other places.
Political
It is a field that studies people and the relationships among them.
A social science.
The east-west lines in the grid.
latitude
They are landmasses smaller than continents and completely surrounded by water.
Islands
It shows where in the world the area on the map is located.
Locator map
This map focuses onone special topic.
Special- purpose map
It is the study of the world, its people and the landscape they create.
Geography
Lines of latitude are called
parallels
The Ecuator divided the globe into two halves called...
Hemispheres
It shows what the subject of the map is.
Title
Topics such as climate, goverment, demography, and ethnic groups can be represented in this map.
Special-purpose map
Geography is considered a __________ because geographers look at data and gather information by themselves.
science
It is an imaginary line that circles the globe halfway between the North and South poles.
Ecuator
Earth's land surface is divided into seven landmasses.
Continents
It is also key because it explains what the symbols on the map represent.
Legend
This type of map shows features such as mountains, rivers, oceans and islands.
Physical map
They visit places and talk to people to know how they live, what they do for a living and how they move from one place to another.
Geographers
The north-south imaginary lines are of
longitude
They are represented with this symbol °
Degrees
It has a directional indicator which way north, south and west lie on the map.
Compass rose
West Africa: Climate
What kind of map we neeed to use?
Special - Purpose Map
They want to know what causes mountains to form and create tornadoes.
Geographers.